Deno Deploy
Shares rank 5 of 6 serverless platforms by recommenders
Praised for a generous free tier and as a go-to host for new TypeScript projects; critics say it has become clunky and worry about how long products are supported.
Praised for a generous free tier and as a go-to host for new TypeScript projects; critics say it has become clunky and worry about how long products are supported.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 8
- approval share
- 38%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Generous free tier for hobby projects
“its free tier has been generous for the hobby projects I've been building on it”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend” Go-to host for new TypeScript projects
“I think it's excellent. I use it for anything new that uses TypeScript.”
Comment from 21 Mar 2026 in “404 Deno CEO not found” Seen as an excellent product
“Deno Deploy is actually an excellent product.”
Comment from 21 Mar 2026 in “404 Deno CEO not found”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Short support windows for runtime and Deploy
“One year of runtime support and six months for Deploy is a scramble.”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Cloudflare acquires Deno” “just to let them die within 1 year and 6 months respectively”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Cloudflare acquires Deno” Seen as chasing profit over core promise
“Deno Deploy offering would have never be profitable because it contradicted the very core of the Deno's technology promise”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Cloudflare acquires Deno” “move away from the framework to things like Deno Deploy in pursuit of money”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Cloudflare acquires Deno”
Other serverless platforms people recommend
The four most recommended other serverless platforms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers | 190 | 77 | 71% | 13 | 5 yrs10 owners | Approved |
| AWS Lambda | 84 | 61 | 58% | 12 | 6 yrs5 owners | — |
| Cloudflare Pages and Workers | 6 | 2 | 75% | 5 | — | — |
| Cloudflare Python Workers | 6 | 4 | 60% | 2 | — | — |
| Deno DeployThis page | 5 | 8 | 38% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“One year of runtime support and six months for Deploy is a scramble.”
“Deno Deploy offering would have never be profitable because it contradicted the very core of the Deno's technology promise”
“move away from the framework to things like Deno Deploy in pursuit of money”
“just to let them die within 1 year and 6 months respectively”
“its free tier has been generous for the hobby projects I've been building on it”
“Deno Deploy itself is handling this URL differently!”
“I used to love deno deploy but its gotten very clunky these days.”
“racking up a huge deno deploy and vercel bills ($40-50/mo each)”
“I think it's excellent. I use it for anything new that uses TypeScript.”
“Deno Deploy is actually an excellent product.”
“Serverless is kind of a weird offering that forces developers to do a lot of work”
“None of these schedulers are open source. Not Deno Deploy, not Supabase”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.